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AMD to purchase ATI for $5.4bn
News We won't change anything until we learn a lot more about this transaction," said Chuck Mulloy, an Intel spokesman. The pending merger is expected to have little effect on Nvidia's graphics-processing (GP) business strategy, said Derek Perez, an...
[July 24, 2006, 13:20]
Chipmakers aim to unclog data paths
News The mesh network itself is also divided up into five layers, depending on the type of transaction. Each tile sports a RISC processing core that runs at 600MHz to 1GHz as well as a switch that can send data in four directions: up, down, right and left.
[August 20, 2007, 11:01]
Sage Line 50 v9 Financial Controller review
Reviews One new feature, Transaction e-mail (only in Financial Controller) lets you send and receive orders, invoices and other trading documents by email instead of through the post. Transaction e-mail can be sent to anyone with an email address and still...
[November 11, 2002, 10:56]
Tiers of an application developer
News BW components manage the series of events required to complete a business transaction. But information about the state of a process (e.g.order entry or invoice processing) should be maintained in a separate user process (UP) component.
[October 23, 2002, 10:34]
Is Xeon heading to the low end?
News Merrill Lynch was able to build the 250-transaction-per-second system for under $1 million, (£610k) Yeger said. The chip includes six multithreaded packet processing engines and is built on Intel's StrongARM processor core.
[September 2, 1999, 9:15]
Like stealing credit cards from babies
News According to one consultant, the software logs each transaction, then at the end of the day saves that log file -- credit-card numbers and all -- in a plain-text archive file. His company is promoting a new online transaction scheme that eliminates...
[January 13, 2000, 9:39]
HP-UX 11i V3 Performance Further Increases Your Productivity for Improved IT Business Value
White Papers HP-UX 11i v2 has established leadership results with HP Integrity servers across a range of industry benchmarks testing workload characteristics that typify Java, transaction processing, data warehousing, and compute- and floating point-intensive...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To IBM Hursley, Big Blue's very big house in the country near Winchester, where once the wartime production of Spitfires was co-ordinated but now Java, Websphere and transaction processing are the order of the day.
[March 26, 2004, 16:15]
Choosing SOA and Application Life-Cycle Solutions Designed to Help You Achieve Your Business Objectives
White Papers It reviews IBM software solutions that support On Demand Business in the context of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), transaction processing and application life cycles. This white paper examines the needs of organizations that run System z...
[April 26, 2007, 1:00]
AuthPay Express
Downloads Transaction server includes drop file processing and connectivity to SQL databases. Credit card authorization software for Mac OS X. The best hardware, software and financial model for credit verification and authorization - anywhere.
[October 31, 2003, 7:00]
Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array
News The high speed of flash-based storage is useful for transaction-heavy operations such as processing employee payroll, which was the basis of the benchmark, Sun said. Sun has unveiled a solid-state flash-based storage array with a capacity of up to...
[October 13, 2009, 17:40]
Can Linux break into banks?
News It had requests from users for transaction rates of 100 million per day, peaking at up to 20 million an hour. Transaction volumes increased dramatically - as verified by Forrester Research's subsidiary Giga - to in excess of 19 million an hour and...
[September 9, 2005, 12:00]
Intel ships 1Mb cache Pentium Pro
News Intel said the doubled cache would be ideal for transaction processing, data warehousing and other intensive database applications. The firm expects typical configurations to be 4-CPU and larger symmetric multiprocessing servers.
[August 19, 1997, 10:37]
Servers get new database speed test
News The Transaction Processing Performance Council has approved the new standard, called TPC-E, which is designed to be easier and less expensive to run and to be more representative of what databases are used for these days.
[March 19, 2007, 9:30]
Experts warn on opportunistic malware avalanche
News Email users are being warned to be on the lookout for new social engineering techniques attempting to exploit the widely-publicised theft of up to 40 million credit card account details from a transaction processing firm.
[June 22, 2005, 11:35]
Sybase releases virtualised disk cluster tool
News Announced on Tuesday, the new edition is designed to manage high workloads, such as online transaction processing or VLDB (very large database) systems, which should help to improve utilisation rates for database administrators trying to cut costs...
[February 20, 2008, 10:06]
Compaq boasts server dominance
News In addition, Compaq said the fastest model in the line was the first to break the Transaction Processing Council's (TPC) price/performance barrier. Compaq's ProLiant 5000 range took almost 80 per cent of the server and super server market...
[September 24, 1996, 17:22]
BT and Intel snuggle up for e-commerce
News BT will offer real-time credit card transaction processing. The service -- BT StoreCentre -- has been developed by Intel and allows users to build an online store or incorporate one into an existing Web site.
[July 7, 1999, 16:49]
Oracle taps into Sun tech for faster Exadata
News In an announcement on Tuesday, Oracle said the Exadata Database Machine Version 2 uses Sun FlashFire technology to increase performance and the scalability of online transaction processing (OLTP). Database giant Oracle has drawn on Sun hardware...
[September 16, 2009, 17:01]
IBM claims server-speed victory over Intel
News A $5.6m (£2.94m) 32-processor IBM p690 was able to perform 1.025 million transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council TPC-C test. An IBM Unix server using the company's own Power processors has beaten an Intel Itanium...
[February 18, 2004, 9:45]
